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Subject: Re: P4 Vs Athlon 64 bits

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:35:41 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 11:05:38, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On August 15, 2005 at 10:43:34, Mathieu Pagé wrote:
>
>>>Do you plan to buy an old Sockel 754-Athlon? I would rather go for Sockel 939
>>>the are much cooler and consume very little power and hence very easy and good
>>>to overclock.
>>>
>>>An AMD 64 3000+ is very cheap but most probably overclockable to 2.4 GHz.
>>>
>>>To answer your question, if your AMD Athlon 64 3400+ runs on 2.4 GHz (there are
>>>different versions) you have most probably the chess performance of an Pentium 4
>>>3.8 GHz.
>>
>>I'm not a fan of overclocking. This mean I won't overclock it.
>>
>>This said is there an other reason to go with an socket 939 processor. I choosed
>>this particular processor because I can have a good deal on it.
>>
>>Advices are welcome.
>>
>>Mathieu Pagé
>
>The socket 939 has more future perspective, means you could exchange the CPU if
>you desire in the future more easily w/o changing the motherboard while socket
>754 will be abandoned by AMD to my knowledge.
>On the other hand, you can always buy a new motherboard in the future for 100
>bucks compatible to socket 939. Im not sure about the advantage of 939 right
>now, except heat and energy consumption which favorites the newer 939 chips. You
>normally get better deals for socket 754 systems because they are older.
>
>regards
>Andy


939 has dual-core potential, for one important detail...



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